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have an excellent education, are inftruCted in every fei- 
ence that relates to their profedion, and are taught the 
duties of chriftians, and of citizens, before they are per¬ 
mitted to aflame a command over their fellow men. In 
general, this author bellows great praife on the police, 
for the attention which it pays to the inftruCtion of the 
people. The principal ftreets have large fubterranean 
canals, through which the dirt of the city is conveyed 
by running water to the river. In the winter evenings, 
the, town is well lighted, and the comforts of fociety ad¬ 
mirably conducted. A regulation, on which the citi¬ 
zens have agreed, in cafes of fire, deferves imitation. 
Each perfon is provided with a large fack, and, when a 
fire happens, all the neighbours repair to the houfe with 
their facks ; and, as each has his feveral talk affigned 
to him, the furniture and goods are foon rempved, with 
as little confufion as poflible, and the fufferer is certain 
of their being lodged in fafe hands. Hanover is very po¬ 
pulous, confidering its fize, particularly the old town : 
the number of equipages feen irv the ftreets fhews that 
it contains many wealthy citizens ; and the mode of liv¬ 
ing becomes daily more luxurious ; though not fo much 
fo as amongft the merchants in Hamburg. Hanover is 
now (Feb. 1808) in the hands of the French. Fifty- 
eight miles fouth-eaft of Bremen, and a hundred and 
forty weft of Berlin. Lat. 52. 27. N. Ion. 27.15. E. 
Ferro. 
HAN'OVER (Electorate of), comprehends the du¬ 
chies of Zell, Saxe-Lauenburg, Bremen, Luneburg, the 
principalitiesof Calenburg,Verden-Grubenhagen, Diep- 
holz, Hoya, Oberwald, &c. The dignity of elector 
was conferred on Erneft Auguftus, dtike of Brunfwick 
Hanover, by the emperor Leopold, in 1692, as a reward 
for the great fervices done by the duke in a war with 
the French king, Louis XIV. This new creation met 
with great opposition, both in the electoral college and 
the college of princes; but at laft, by a conclufion of 
the three colleges, on the 30th of January, 1708, it was 
unanimoufly determined that the electoral dignity fhould 
be confirmed to the duke of Hanover and his heirs male ; 
but it was added, that if, wl\ile that electoral dignity 
fubfifted, the Palatine electorate fhould happen to fall 
into the hands of a proteftant prince, the firft catholic 
elector (hould have a fupernumerary vote. This conclu- 
fion being eafily agreed to by the emperor, the duke of 
Hanover was introduced into the electoral college on the 
lath of September the fame year. In 1714, the eleCtor, 
George, became king of England, at the death of queen 
Anne, by virtue of the aCt of fettlement. 
HAN'OVER, a county on the north-weft part of the 
ifland of Jamaica. 
HAN'OVER, a bay in the fea of Honduras, fituated 
on the eaft fide of the peninfula of Yucatan, from which 
it receives the waters of the Rio Honde. The trad of 
land between the river Honde and the Balize was ceded 
by the Spaniards to the king of Great Britain, at the 
peace of 1783, for the purpofe of cutting and carrying 
away logwood. 
HAN'OVER, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Luzerne county, Pennfylvania. Alfo a townfhip in 
Wafhington county. Eaft and Weft Hanover, are two 
townfhips in Dauphine county in the fame ftate. 
HAN'OVER,, or M'Allister’s Town, a poft-town 
of the American States, in New York county, Pennfyl¬ 
vania, fituated between Cadorus creek, and a branch of 
Little Conewago, which flows into the Sufquehannah. 
It contains nearly three hundred dwelling houfes, and a 
German and Lutheran church : feven miles north of the 
Maryland line, eighteen miles fouth-weft of York, and 
so6 weft-by-fouth of Philadelphia. 
HAN'OVER, .a townfhip of the American States, in 
Plymouth county* MafTachufetts, twenty-five miles 
fouth-eaft from Bofton; incorporated in 1727, and con¬ 
tains 1083 inhabitants. 
HAN'OVER, a poft-town of the American States, in 
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HAN 
New Hampfhire, fituated on the eaft fide of Connecticut 
river in Grafton county. Dartmouth College, in this 
town, is fituated on a beautiful plain, about half a mile 
from the river, in lat. 43.43. N. Ion. 72.' 14. W. from 
Greenwich. It derives its name from William earl of 
Dartmouth, one of its principal benefactors, and was 
founded in 1769, by the late Dr. Eleazer Wheelock, 
The funds of the college confift chiefly of lands, amount¬ 
ing to about 80,000 acres, which are increafing in value 
in proportion to the growth of the country ; 1,200 acres 
lie contiguous to the college, and are capable of the 
higheft improvement; 12,000 lie in Vermont. A traCt 
of eight miles fquare was granted by the aflembly of 
New Hampfhire in 1789. The revenue of the college, 
arifing from the lands, in 1793, amounted annually to 
140I. By contracts then made, they would amount, in 
four years after, to 450I. and in twelve years to 650L 
The income from tuition is about 600I, per annum. 
The number of under-graduates is, on an average, from 
150 to 180. A grammar-fchool of about fifty or fixty 
fcholars is,annexed to the college. The (Indents are 
under the immediate government and inftruClion of a 
prefident, who is alfo profelfor of hiftory, a profeftbr of 
mathematics and natural philofophy, a profeftbr of lan¬ 
guages, and two tutors. The college is furniflied with 
a handfome library, and a philofophical apparatus tole¬ 
rably complete. A new college edifice of wood, 150 b/ 
50 feet, and three ftories high, was ereCted in 1786, con¬ 
taining thirtyrfix rooms for (Indents. Its fituation is ele. 
vated, healthful, and pleafant, commanding an extenfive 
profpe.Ct to the weft. There are three other public 
buildings belonging to the college ; and a handfome con¬ 
gregational meeting-houfe has lately been ereCted, in 
which the commencement exercifes are exhibited. It 
is thirty-two miles north of Charlcftown, 115 north-weft- 
by-weft of Portfmouth, 138 north-weft of Bofton, and 
378 north-eaft-by-north of Philadelphia. 
HAN'OVER, a townfhip of the American States, in 
Morris County, New Jerfey. On a ridge of hills in this 
townfhip are a number of wells, forty miles from the 
fea in a ftraight line, which regularly ebb and flow about 
fix feet twice in every twenty-four hours. It is about 
fixteen miles north-weft of Elizabeth Town, and joins 
upon Morriftown. 
HAN'OVER, a county of the American States, in 
Virginia, lying between Pamunky and Chickahominy ri¬ 
vers. Its length is about forty-eight miles, and its 
breadth twenty-two; and contains 14,754 inhabitants. 
HAN'OVER, a town of Virginia, in the above county, 
fituated on the weft fide of the Pamunky : fix miles from 
New Caftle, twenty-two north-eaft-by-eaft of Richmond, 
and no north-north-weft of Wafhington city. 
HAN'OVER (New), an ifland in the Pacific Ocean, 
difeovered by captain Carteret, in i767,abouttenleagues 
in length. The fouth-weft part fituated in lat. 2. 49. S. 
Ion. 148. 27. E. Greenwich. 
H ANOVE'RIAN, adj. Belonging to Hanover, bom 
in Hanover, produced in Hanover. 
HANOVE'RIAN,/. A native of Hanover.. 
I-IAN'ROW, a town of Germany, in the duchy of 
Holftein : fourteen miles eaft of Meldorp. 
I-IANS'B ACH, a town of Bohemia, in the circle of Leit- 
meritz, with manufactures of cotton, thread, and pa¬ 
per : twelve miles north of Kamnitz. 
HANSE,yi [Gothic.] A fociety of merchants, for 
the good ulage and fafe paflage of merchandize from 
one kingdom to another. The hanfe or mercatorumfocietas , 
was and in part yet is endowed with many large privi¬ 
leges by princes within their territories; and had four 
principal feats of ftaples, where the Almain, or German 
and Dutch merchants, being the founders of this fociety, 
had an efpecial houfe appointed for their ufe; one of 
which was in London, called the Steel-yard. 
HANSEA'TIC LEAGUE, the league or confede¬ 
racy which formed the firft fyftematic plan of commerce 
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